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Facebook’s recent suspension of Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that played a key role in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, highlights the rapid rise of a company that claimed it had reached new heights in marrying the art of political persuasion with the science of big data.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook is suspending the Trump-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, after learning that it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network, Facebook said late Friday.

By David Cho
The Washington Post
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As St. Patrick’s Day bar patrons dotted downtown streets, police —with weapons drawn— arrested two people in front of one Mt. Pleasant bar early Sunday morning, after witnesses spotted a gun on the ground during a fight in front of another bar minutes earlier.

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After years of dithering and hoping the problem would go away, California is finally taking steps to address its housing crisis. In 2017 the state passed a series of bills designed to encourage the construction of new affordable housing -- streamlining the regulatory approval process, providing more state funding and cracking down on local governments that fall short of their housing goals. Now, state Senator Scott Wiener is pushing a new more aggressive package of legislation.